Detachable handle.



S. A. DUNCAN.

DETACHABLE HANDLE.

Patented May 25, 1915.

SYLENA A. DUNCAN, 0F NESHANIG, NEW JERSEY.

DETACI-IABLE HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 19315.

Application filed September 16, 1913. Serial No. 790,140.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SYLENA A. DUNCAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Neshanic, in the county ofSomerset and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Detachable Handles; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to cooking utensils and more particularly todetachable handles for use therewith.

It has for an object to provide animproved form of a handle and coactingmeans carried by a utensil for the reception of said handle.

it has also for an object to provide a handle of this character madeafter the pattern of expanding tongs whose jaws may be insorted in anysuitable and properly-shaped opening and distended by compressing thehandle grips.

These objects are carried out by constructing the invention in themanner set forth in the following specification, appended claims anddrawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a saucepan with one form of a handlereceiving member attached thereto, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of adetachable handle, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a saucepan withanother form of handle receiving means secured thereto, Fig. 4 is ahorizontal sectional view through a portion of a handle, Fig. 5 is aperspective view of the spring member removed from the handle and Fig. 6is a perspective view of one of the handle members. Fig. 7 is a sideelevation of a modified form of handle.

Referring to the drawings there is shown a cooking utensil 10 which hasa wire or similar loop 11 secured thereto which loop 11 is formed in thestrand of wire 12 which encircles the saucepan or similar utensil withina bead formed about the upper edge thereof and where the bead is cutaway at 18 to permit the wire 12 to be exposed the loop 11 is formed andbent down against the side of the saucepan.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings the utensil is provided with plates 14: whichmay be riveted or otherwise secured thereto and from these plates extendthe ofi'sets 15 which have cheek plates 16 formed thereon. These 01fsetsand cheek plates are spaced apart to permit engagement of jaws carriedby the handle to be hereinafter described; and, to assist said jaws infirmly en aging said cheek plates, they are recessed as at 17 to receivebosses formed on the handle members as will be described.

The handle member comprises a spring 18 which is rolled into a cylinderbut its edges not connected with each other although they meet as shownin Fig. 5, its sides at the center of its length being cut away as at 19to receive the hand holds or grips 20 shown in Fig. 6. Said grips attheir front end extend integrally into plates 21 which are of a size tostand. upright within the cylindrical end portion of the spring 18 asseen, and the tendency of the spring is to throw the front edges ofthese plates into contact with each other, whereas the disposition ofthe grips 20 within the cutaway portion 19 of the spring holds the rearedges of the plates out of contact with each other. Such front edges ofthe plates extend through the open side of the spring, and have lateraljaws 22 which when the handle is applied to the utensil pass eitherbetween the loop 11 and the utensil or the cheek plates 16 and theutensil. The plates 21 are provided with bosses 23 which as shown inFigs. 4 and 6 may be formed by stamping the handle members to suchconfigurations. When the handle is applied to the utensil as shown inFig. 3 these bosses engage the recesses 17 and assist in looking thehandle and utensil in fixed relation when the handles 20 are gripped asby a person.

The lateral jaws may have the edges thereof serrated as at 241, and theupper edge of each jaw terminates in a tongue 25 which tongue when thehandle is applied limits the downward movement thereof. The serrations24: are intended for engagement with curved portions of the wire 12 whenthe jaws 22 do not pass completely down into the loop 11, or when theloop 11 is secured to a shallow pan, or when on account of obstructions,the handles are not desired to be moved downwardly to a limitedposition. The engagement is had by passing the reduced edges, formed bythe serrations into the reduced opening formed by the curved members 12.

Various modifications may be made within the scope of this inventionwithout departing from the spirit thereof and the drawings are submittedfor illustrative purposes only.

As shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings, the handle has grips extendingupwardly at an angle from the spring portion, and from near the upperedge thereof. This arrangement enables the handle being applied to autensil when several utensils are on a stove or the like, by permittingthe grips to pass over the adjacent utensils.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The herein described detachable handle comprising a cylindricalspring split down its front and having cut-away portions in its oppositesides at its mid-length, a pair of grips passing through said cut-awayportions, upright plates integral with the front ends of said grips andstanding within said spring and projecting through its front, and jawson the front edges of said plates forward of the spring, for the purposeset forth.

2. The herein described detachable handle comprising a cylindricalspring split down its front and having cut-away portions in its oppositesides at its midlength, a pair of its opposite sides, a pair of gripspassing through said cut-away portions, upright plates connected withthe front ends of sald comprising a cylindrical spring split down itsfront and having cut-away portions in its opposite sides at itsmid-length; combined with a handle consisting of a pair of grips passingthrough said cut-away portions, upright plates integral with the frontends of said grips and standing within said spring, the plates beingstamped with outwardly projecting bosses extending through the cut-awayportions and the plates themselves projecting through the front side ofthe spring, and jaws carried by the front projecting edges of theplates, for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination with a utensil having a wire in its head, the latterbeing cut-away at one side and the wire projecting through the cut-awayportion and formed into a dependent loop; of a handle comprising a pairof upright plates whose front edges are bent I at angles into jawsextending away from each other and adapted to pass into the upper end ofsaid loop, grips extending rearwardly from said plates and normallydiverging from each other, and a spring for holding the front edges ofthe platesnormally in contact with each other, for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' SYLENA A. DUNCAN.

Witnesses ANNA R. MATZKIN, K. TA'KOGI.

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Washington, D, G.

